if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
James 2:15 - English Standard Version 2016 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a brother or sister is poorly clad and lacks food for each day, American Standard Version (1901) If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, Common English Bible Imagine a brother or sister who is naked and never has enough food to eat. Catholic Public Domain Version So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food: |
if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?